Chain Gang Cycle Tours

For many, France may be the center of cycling, residence into the world’s best bicycle competition, the journey de France. It also has more cycle tourists than somewhere else. And I’m bound to express you can find good reasons for that.

The French tend to be tuned into united states cyclists, there is a real warmth towards anybody on a bicycle, whether you're cycling a modern rushing bike within best lycra, or a vintage bone-shaker. It is a marvellous knowledge, if you are using one of your biking breaks in France you are the King for the road.

The French may well-known for their particular meals. Among great joys of exploring France is the number of regional food. In Provence you can find fresh veggies and fresh fruit, regional natural herbs and olive oils – even vegetarians are safe in Provence. Not too in Dordogne where in actuality the cuisine is dependent largely on duck and goose.

Burgundy also boasts a unique regional food, a lot of it now celebrated, meals such as for example Boeuf Bourguignonne, Coq au Vin, snails, frogs feet, along with oeufs muerette and jambon perseillé. In Normandy we look for gorgeous cheeses, all produced from the high-fat milk associated with the Norman cow. Forget the bland camembert that you’re familiar with, we period through the village of Camembert it self, and alongside Livarot and Pont L’Eveque, Normans are rightly proud of their cheeses.

But you can’t simply turn-up in France and enjoy the finest meals available. The French have the largest tourism business on earth, assuming visitors aren’t mindful they chance being treated as just ‘this week’s bunch’. That’s the absolute most important thing your Chain Gang does – we shall show you ideal paths, top meals, the best hoteliers and restaurant owners.

Introduce a bit of adventure into your wine-tasting.

A primary reason that France is really favored by travellers is the fact that it provides every little thing. The most famous wines in the world come from Bordeaux and Burgundy. But some of the tend to be unrealistic for mortals, our challenge is introduce you to some secrets of French wines. We see Monbazillac and Haut Montravel, in which we taste certainly exquisite dessert wines – do not groan, these are offered properly, plus they are beautiful. We are going to change your view of dessert wines (unless you already love them!).

We visit a few of the most recent Appellations, including AOC Les Baux-de-Provence, famous chateaux like Lynch-bages when you look at the haut médoc, world-famous white wines in Chassagne Montrachet and Meursault in Burgundy. However the ultimate goal for almost any wine fan is to find the appellation separated from a famous neighbour by a drainage ditch. The exact same terroir, the exact same weather, similar vines, nevertheless they can’t charge similar price, and they have to use more difficult. Places like Pécharment in Bordeaux, Vacqueyras and Gigondas in Provence. Our aim on our French trips and cycling holidays would be to introduce you to the very best they’ve got.

France, the very best nation on earth for biking!

We haven't also discussed the surroundings in Dordogne, the renaissance chateaux regarding the Loire Valley, the Roman theatres and aqueducts of Provence, the beaches and galleries of Normandy. Everyone else are able to find somewhere in France, everybody.